Sunsets, twilights, and evening skies
Abstract
Scientific and aesthetic aspects of twilight effects in the atmosphere are discussed and illustrated in a book intended for the general reader. Numerous color and black-and-white photographs are provided, and graphs representing mathematical relationships are employed in the scientific explanations. Phenomena considered include the green flash, the effects of the earth's shadow, volcanic eruptions and volcanic twilights, Bishop's ring and blue suns, noctilucent clouds, zodiacal light and gegenschein, aurora, city lights, twilight on the planets, comets, vapor trails, artificial satellites, meteors, earth crossers, and novas and supernovas.
- Publication:
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Cambridge and New York
- Pub Date:
- 1983
- Bibcode:
- 1983cup..book.....M
- Keywords:
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- Nightglow;
- Sky Radiation;
- Sunset;
- Twilight Glow;
- Air Pollution;
- Atmospheric Optics;
- Auroras;
- Cities;
- Comets;
- Contrails;
- Gegenschein;
- Illuminating;
- Meteoroids;
- Noctilucent Clouds;
- Photographs;
- Planetary Radiation;
- Reflected Waves;
- Volcanoes;
- Zodiacal Light;
- Geophysics